When I typed the name into Google Translate, it responded: "The Monotype textbook for Buttons and Creamer ", which I thought was interesting. It also offered "Moulder or Founder" for Giesser, but nothing more illuminating for "Taster", but I guess it means "Keyboard and Caster". . .

Google translator is not a very good translator. Rather a very louzy one. It helps a little, and is cheap. Good only when you have nobody to do it properly. Keep that in mind.

I had a good course in the German language when I was in highschool, but that was in the 1960-ties. Still this helps me a lot.

You might start learning that language, it will surely enrich your life. Reading Goethe from the original German texts.

And there are so much more famous books and authors in that language.

The manual is also very informative about the elder monotype-machines too. These machines had survived the war in Eastern Germany, but could not be replaced because the restictions on import. I guess... Or they had not the english pounds to pay for them.

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The papertower of the keyboard, I took it off, separated it from the other parts.

I changed it a bit, for use with the interface and made ribbons with it for others, a rather slow proces

There are a few ins and outs with that mechanism. But it can be done computer controled.

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The book is hard bound but bound with iron staples in it. They are already a bit rusty.

It is very difficult to scan the pages, but I might take all staples out of it preserving the book. And than the pages are available for scanning. But there are so much other things to do.

Yes. I was more amused by the Google Translation than trusting its accuracy. I didn't make the immediate connection between "buttons" and "keys" and was instead reminded of the character of the button moulder in Peer Gynt. I did start learning some German when I was in Austria for a few months last year, although I'm not really up to reading Goethe, I can manage my knödel recipe book.

I'm hoping that the manual will be useful as we are now in a similar situation to when it was written - divorced from a ready supply of instructors and spare parts. As long as I don't start trying to use the caster to make knödel, it should be OK.